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The Wages of Fear

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In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey. From TMDB

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  • Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 18, 2025

    I finally watched THE WAGES OF FEAR ('53) and it was very good. Been wanting to see it since film school and I'm glad it wasn't a disappointment.

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  • Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 29, 2024

    Now through next Thursday at Film Forum, in a new 4K restoration, one of THE great suspense films of all time and a landmark in French cinema: THE WAGES OF FEAR (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953). Every movie lover should see this one. filmforum.org/film/the-wag...

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  • Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.comBluesky · Feb 16, 2025

    For the 70th anniversary of its US release, on @letterboxd.social I wrote about Henri-Georges Clouzot’s THE WAGES OF FEAR: Its legacy on thrillers and its political and queer-coded tensions.

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  • The Paris Theater - NYC @paristheaternyc.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    William Friedkin’s remake of THE WAGES OF FEAR stars Roy Scheider as a mobster in exile who gets a shot at freedom – if he can transport volatile explosives through the rainforest. See the 4K restoration of SORCERER in our series Big & Loud. Get tickets: paristheaternyc.com/film/sorcere...

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  • Zeb Cyrus 🎃👻🙀 @zbcy.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    Books to film 📚=🎞️ The Wages of Fear (1950) by Georges Arnaud was adapted (1977) as Sorcerer by William Friedkin. One of the major differences is the book spends time developing the background of players while the film uses short vignettes. Both delve into inescapable fate. 🚚💸😨 #filmsky #booksky

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  • Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2024

    Posters rarely capture the tone and experience of watching a film as well as this - for Janus Films' current US re-release of THE WAGES OF FEAR (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953). I wonder who the artist is?

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  • Llewellyn @llewellynrose.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2026

    watching The Wages of Fear and this film is from 1953...

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  • Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2024

    The Wages of Fear (1954) - about as close to perfect as a film can be boxd.it/6MjRiF

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  • MikeOutWest @mikeoutwestuk.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2025

    #ACenturyOfCinema continues, 1977. Another huge blind spot: William Friedkin's SORCERER, based on The Wages of Fear. Four lost souls have no choice but to take on the deadly job transporting cases of sweaty dynamite 200 miles through dense jungle. Great score by Tangerine Dream & that bridge scene!

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  • 🎃HunkyKarras🎃/♑🇮🇪🇬🇧 @hunkykubrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #262 As a general rule I don't think remakes are necessary unless they aim to try a different approach to its predecessor. William Friedkin's adaptation of The Wages of Fear does this & more! #4K #BluRay #PhysicalMedia

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 15, 2026

    4/15/53: Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear w/Yves Montand, Charles Vanel Won grand prizes at Cannes, Berlin - but left-leaning film heavily edited for US release More: @joshuarothkopf.bsky.social: www.timeout.com/movies/the-w... Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

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  • Bryan Loomis @bryanwhatapic.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 9, 2023

    Movie years project Year 1953 (38/122) Now Watching 📽️ #2/12 The Wages of Fear dir. Henri Georges-Clouzot

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  • Sam Vecenie @samvecenie.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Catching up on some of my recent Criterion purchases from the Flash sale. Wrote a bit longer over on @letterboxd.social about both Lone Star and The Wages of Fear, two movies I saw for the first time this week that I absolutely adored. letterboxd.com/SamVecenie/

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  • MasterBismuth @masterbismuth.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 21, 2025

    Sorcerer (1977) directed by William Friedkin. Either that or its precursor--and an excellent film in its own right--The Wages of Fear (1953). I don't think the latter has that bridge in it though. Its obstacles and landscape are a bit more planar.

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  • Martin Grasdal 🍁 @mgrasdal.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 9, 2026

    "Wherever there's oil, there's Americans." Quote from one of the characters in the 1953 anti-capitalist and thriller French film by Henri-Georges Clouzot, The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la peur).

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  • I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.appBluesky · Sep 24, 2025

    Yeah, it doesn’t mean they’re worthless, but like this is clearly a key element running through the work. “The Wages of Fear” is another one. Film school classic but like they’re clearly comparing a “civilized” vs “savage” dimension and using race as a motif to do so.

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 15, 2025

    4/15/53: Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear, w/Yves Montand, Charles Vanel Won grand prizes at Cannes, Berlin - but left-leaning film heavily edited for US release More: @joshuarothkopf.bsky.social: www.timeout.com/movies/the-w... Hoberman: www.laphamsquarterly.org/fear/every-p...

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  • Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.comBluesky · Mar 2, 2026

    ALIENS is not a horror film. It's basically "The Wages of Fear" in space. It's great suspense and it uses all the same beats of Clouzot's great film about people who are desperately trying to escape from a horrible situation and not all of them do.

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  • Richard Wayne Bowling @rchrdwynbwlngk100.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 9, 2025

    I just watched Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1953 movie “The Wages of Fear”. It’s a story of four men who are hired to drive two trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over extremely dangerous South American roads. This extraordinary film contains sequences of almost unbearable tension and existential dread.

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  • yonge @yonge.onlineBluesky · Aug 21, 2025

    movies! 1. Stalker 2. Repo Man 3. Paris, Texas 4. Pickpocket ('59) 5. Dead Ringers 6. Spoorloos 7. Jeanne Dielman 8. Suspiria ('77) 9. Rebels of the Neon God 10. An Elephant Sitting Still 11. The Wages of Fear 12. Aguirre, the Wrath of God 13. Le Bonheur ('65) 14. American Movie 15. The Celebration

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2024

    AWWWWW DANG Next is The Wages of Fear. I completely *adore* that movie, but I may have to pass because: 1) I just watched Sorcerer not too long ago 2) it's a heavy film, and you have to be in the right frame of mind for it, and I'm feeling goofy and silly, so no So... hmmm... I'll find something!

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  • Bafflegabs @bafflegabs.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2023

    The Wages Of Fear (1953) is so great, like perilously close to a perfect film, but my favorite thing in it is this road sign. https://boxd.it/4Il7qF

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2025

    I'll say this: I have the OG movie, The Wages of Fear, and the remake Sorcerer as 5-star deallymabobs over on Letterboxd. Both are very, very good. I'd put The Wages of Fear juuuuuust slightly over Sorcerer for being more emotionally engaging. But the action direction of Sorcerer? INSANE. *Wow.*

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  • Phil Edwards - Live for Films @liveforfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2024

    The Wages of Fear is returning to cinemas with a new 4K restoration. Trailer and details here bit.ly/3Z4YH7U #TheWagesofFear #film #4K #rerelease

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  • Noise Research @noiseresearch.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2026

    #NowPlaying Sorcerer - Tangerine Dream (MCA, 1977) TDs first soundtrack recording, made for the William Friedkin film 'Sorcerer' (a remake of 'The Wages of Fear') & the last studio LP to feature Peter Baumann. According to wiki there were 5 singles released from it! #tangerinedream #kosmische

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  • Peter Albrechtsen @lydrummet.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2026

    Sønnike og jeg har haft et solidt filmdøgn. Han har valgt de sidste 24 timers repertoire. Fire fremragende film. Sorcerer er faktisk en genindspilning af The Wages of Fear, men vel at mærke et enormt kreativt remake. Og ja, selv om jeg laver lyd på film, kan jeg faktisk godt lide stumfilm 😉

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  • UnderpantsWeevil @[email protected]Lemmy · Mar 18, 2026

    > Atomize* some propelant, boom, explosive. The trick is to get the atomized propelant to "boom, explosive" at the target and not in your backpack. Also, you probably want a "boom" sufficient to accomplish whatever demolition you're planning, which - again - raises the stakes regarding what's in your backpack. There's a classic little film called "[The Wages of Fear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Fear)" that explores the hazards of amateurs transporting high explosives over long…

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  • Blurry @blurrymystr.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2025

    Andor, Skeleton Crew, Mando S1, and Rogue One all show that the Star Wars setting works really well when you lean into genre, so lean into it. Do a film noir thriller But Star Wars. Found footage horror But Star Wars. The Wages of Fear But Star Wars. Make a Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes biopic.

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  • Eddie Robson is at Fantasycon @eddierobson.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 5, 2025

    Goon Show 6.25: The Fear of Wages. Not heard this one before, but I knew the title, I'd seen it on tapes when I was a kid. At the time I'd never heard of Henri-Georges Clouzot's classic film The Wages of Fear, so didn't make the connection. #GoonForARun www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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  • Mikko Rautalahti @mikkihel.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    I recently watched The Wages of Fear (1953) and Sorcerer (1977). Both are adaptations of 1950 the novel The Wages of Fear by Georges Arnaud, about desperate men transporting nitroglycerin in trucks over treacherous terrain. To a great extent, they are the same movie... except they really aren't.

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  • Aidan Clarke @cranchyroll.comBluesky · May 28, 2025

    Five favorite black & white movies Man with a Movie Camera The Wages of Fear Ikiru Tetsuo the Iron Man The Lighthouse Smartass answer: Mad Max Fury Road Black and Chrome Edition

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  • (Screams From The) Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2026

    Ethan Hawke is a great actor because he never condescends to the material. Whether he's in a vampire movie or a time travel movie or a Depression-era take on THE WAGES OF FEAR, he commits 100%. This looks really good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ypu...

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  • 🎃Frankensteinar🪓😱 @filmloftet.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 24, 2025

    Sorcerer er ein ganske god film. Men no var eg nettopp ferdig med The Wages of Fear (1953) og den blåste Sorcerer av vegen. Oioi, bortimot ein perfekt film — ikkje eit kjedeleg sekund. Forut si tid!

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  • Corey Atad @coreyatad.comBluesky · Jan 19, 2025

    went to see The Wages of Fear at the cinematheque this afternoon. hadn’t seen it in about a decade. i remembered it being pretty gay, but it was so much gayer! incredibly gay movie. the best.

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  • AnarchoArachnid @anarchoarachnid.bsky.socialBluesky · May 17, 2026

    It's great, really gripping. It's based on a book called 'The Wages of Fear' and a film of the same name The Wages of Fear (1953) Super tense. www.imdb.com/title/tt0046...

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  • Tenuity @tenuity.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 29, 2024

    Choose 20 movies that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just images. Movie 13 #Filmsky 💙🍿 #Movies The Wages of Fear (1953)

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  • Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🙀 @sarahkite.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2023

    I watched it for the first time this year due to all the hype on bluesky, and I’m like “oh, why didn’t anyone tell me this was a remake of The Wages of Fear?!” It was really great - I don’t think Roy Scheider ever made a bad film but I could be wrong. Roy Scheider sweating is pinnacle perspiration

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  • Darrell Clem @darrellclem.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2026

    ... investigator's mannerisms inspiring Columbo's. Countless references to LES DIABOLIQUES as Hitchcockian are accurate, but the film isn't derivative. It's simply one of the best French thrillers, with a perfect cast, ever made. It reminded me that I still need to see Clouzot's THE WAGES OF FEAR.

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  • Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2026

    Watching Sirāt, Sorcerer, and The Wages of Fear all the same week cos that’s how I roll.

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  • weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2025

    it may be THE truck movie! (it's based on a French film called The Wages of Fear, also great.)

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  • Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2023

    Tonight’s first-time viewing: THE WAGES OF FEAR. (Good movie.)

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  • Plaza Atlanta @plazaatlanta.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2026

    Four desperate men. One suicide mission. A cargo of pure nitroglycerin. 💥 Day 4 of Bleak Week brings Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear to the big screen, co-presented by @amcinematheque.bsky.social Experience the ultimate cinematic tension tonight: www.plazaatlanta.com/movie/bleak-...

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  • Neon Splatter @neonsplatter.bsky.socialBluesky · May 25, 2026

    MOTHER TRUCKIN’ MAY: THE WAGES OF FEAR (1953) Vito Nusret on how Henri-Georges Clouzot’s film is a true classic of cinema and the classiest pinnacle of truxploitation. www.neonsplatter.com/daily-beasts... #MotherTruckinMay

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  • Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.comBluesky · Jun 14, 2025

    Mini film festival: • THE WAGES OF FEAR • THIEVES’ HIGHWAY • HELL DRIVERS • SORCERER

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  • D.K. Lawhorn - Filmmaker @dklawhorn.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2025

    Post-weekend #LasFourWatched update. Ballerina is as good as any of the John Wick movies and perfectly sets up a new protagonist to follow in that universe. The Wages of Fear is a masterpiece, but the ending of the movie seems to happen because it’s expected in French cinema. #FilmSky

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  • ᗩᘔᒪEᑎᗪ @azlend.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2024

    Hehehe .... you want stress? See if you can find an old movie called Sorcerer. 1977 movie with Roy Scheider. It is a remake of an older Italian movie called the Wages of Fear. Both are excises in extremes of stress. Once the movie gets going you will not use most of your seat.

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  • Schlockluster Video @schlocklustervideo.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2026

    On May 19, 2007, the restored version of The Wages of Fear was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.

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  • From a Deckchair on the Iceberg @different-iceberg.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2026

    😈 🎬 This season begs for a remake of 'The Wages of Fear' 😬 Swap a truck full of nitroglycerin for a V4 that can't pull the skin off a rice pudding, Yves Montand for Fabio chain smoking Gauloises Caporal's, a dash of ennui... .. et voilà, 'Le salaire de la léthargie', un film magnifique! 🎥 🚬😎

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  • Lee from the Internet @theinternetslee.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    Snuck in a first time watch of The Wages of Fear (1953). Amazing movie, I think I liked Sorcerer better but the margins were tight. I saw that ending coming and still couldn’t believe they went for it📽️ #filmsky

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  • Mighty Chroma: A Home 🏠 for Physical Media @mightychroma.meBluesky · Mar 6, 2025

    📽️ Missed the magic of "The Wages of Fear"? 😃 BFI's restoration in 4K UHD + Dolby Vision HDR breathes life back into this cinematic gem! Relive the tension and thrill in unmatched clarity. It's showtime for film lovers! #PhysicalMedia #FilmSky

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  • Jimbobbers ✌︎㋡ @jimbobbers.bsky.socialBluesky · May 10, 2024

    What’s your favourite black-and-white movie? The Wages of Fear (1953). Just superb.

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  • Out of Context Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @ooccouchgags.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2024

    Watched The Wages of Fear Apparently this is a remake to the movie of the same name way back at 1953. And is another example to stick with that original film instead. Despite the interesting premise, it quickly bores you through the runtime with flat characters, writing and pacing.

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  • R. Eerie VanBoo-kirk @sotsogm.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 4, 2024

    Forgive the quick tangent: if you haven't seen The Wages of Fear, the movie Sorcerer is a remake of, it's absolutely worth your time.

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  • Dave Graney @davegraney.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2023

    Watched The Wages Of Fear yesterday. What an outstanding movie. Netflix plan to remake it BUT YOU COULDNT! The Euro sensibility makes it special! Yves Montand is so great! youtu.be/2_0OrSG5RWA?...

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  • The Ghost of Corbin Trotter @corbin-trotter.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2026

    What's a movie in your Top 25 list that's unlikely to be in anyone else's? #Filmsky 🎥 The Wages of Fear (1953)

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  • "Scream Man" Cam @malaiseforever.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 24, 2026

    The Howling, The Wages of Fear and something that is not technically a movie? More like a two part limited anime series I guess. It’s called Goku Midnight Eye

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  • LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2025

    Check out the original French film The Wages of Fear (1953) too.

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  • GoOoOoOoOose @phatcussy.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 15, 2025

    the problem with a 5 star system is that i would rank superman lower than weapons for sure, but not that much lower, and Sorcerer is probably "objectively" a 5 star film but because of my expectations having just watched The Wages of Fear i didn't enjoy it as much as that one. If anything i enjoyed

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2025

    On this day (25th July) in 1984, the Scala Cinema was showing Quai des Orfèvres, Les Diaboliques and The Wages of Fear as a triple bill.

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  • Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 19, 2025

    Just watch it. Don’t need to know anything I’d say. Some people would know it is remake/homage to French film “The Wages of Fear” (also a masterpiece of sweaty, desperate men)

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